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Dark Winter Nights: Lite

Upcoming Live Storytelling Event

The third iteration of Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska is coming to UAF's Murie Building Auditorium on January 9th! This short-form, one hour event will be held from 7-8pm this coming Friday and will be hosted by UAF Professor of Journalism Robert Prince. Come hear real Alaskan stories from featured storytellers Dermot Cole, Ken Moore and Melissa Buchta.

Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska - LITE

Murie Building Auditorium - UAF's West Ridge

7pm-8pm, January 9th, 2015

Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska

A Fairbanks Storytelling Event

Don't miss the second DWN live event coming up later on this month. Professor of Documentary Filmmaking, Robert Prince, will be hosting this free public event that invites Alaskans to tell their OWN stories - live.

Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska

November 22nd, 8-10pm

Pioneer Park Civic Center Theatre

Dark Winter Nights is not only a live event but is also a radio show on KUAC and routine podcast - subscribe to DWN Podcast here.

Snedden Chair Public Lecture Series

From the pope to Pentecostal serpent handlers: Bringing meaning into journalism

October 1st, 2014 - 7pm

UAF's Murie Building Auditorium

Julia Duin has been a reporter for the Houston Chronicle and was an assistant national editor for The Washington Times for more than 14 years. More recently, she was a frequent writer for the Washington Post Sunday magazine and Style section along with the Wall Street Journal, the Economist and CNN.com. She's earning a second master's degree this fall, has written five books and has covered events from Iceland and Israel to Iraq and India having to do with religion, foreign policy, education and politics.

Upcoming Storytelling Event: Dark Winter Nights

April 19th, 8pm at Pioneer Park Theater

Dark Winter Nights is a 90-minute storytelling event in Fairbanks, Alaska in which Alaskans tell true stories about living in Alaska. The event will be video and audio recorded for distribution later and is intended to kick off a regular Alaska stories podcast coming out next year.

Ready to tell your story?
Got a great story about living in Alaska? Willing to share it with an audience? We want to hear from you for our “Dark Winter Nights” storytelling event 8:00pm Saturday, April 19, 2014 show at the Pioneer Park theater! Use this form to share it with us and we’ll be in touch if it looks like a good fit for the show. If you can’t make the April 19 event, still share your story. We may be able to use it in a future show.

Snedden Guest Lecture Series: Susan W. White

Executive Editor, InsideClimate News

The Future of Our Children's Children: Why Journalism is Essential in the Climate Debate

Wednesday, 03.12.14, UAF Murie Building Auditorium, 7pm

In May, Susan White’s seven-person newsroom at InsideClimateNews.org received the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for “The Dilbit Disaster: The Biggest Oil Spill You’ve Never heard Of.” Three years earlier, White’s investigative team at ProPublica.org landed the first-ever Pulitzer awarded to an online news organization. This former San Diego Union-Tribune editor is, arguably, industry’s leading figure today defining serious digital journalism.

Snedden Lecture April 2013: Lew Simons

"Tales From the Golden Age of Journalism: Vietnam to Iraq” - Thursday, April 25, 2013, Noel Wein Library, 7pm

Lewis M. Simons has been a foreign correspondent since 1967, reporting from Vietnam and throughout Southeast Asia; India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran; China, Japan, North and South Korea, and the former Soviet Union. He wrote for the Associated Press, the Washington Post, and Knight-Ridder Newspapers and won the Pulitzer Prize for exposing the Marcos family's hidden billions. Author of Worth Dying For, he is a regular contributor to National Geographic and his op-ed articles have appeared in the New York Times and the Washington Post.

Snedden Lecturer March 2013: David E. Sanger

Monday, March 25th - 7pm at UAF's Schaible Auditorium

Confront and Conceal: Obama's Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power

David E. Sanger is Chief Washington Correspondent of the New York Times, where he has been a member of two teams that won the Pulitzer Prize. He has also won numerous awards for coverage of the presidency and foreign policy. Mr. Sanger is author of two New York Times best-sellers: “The Inheritance’’ (2009), and most recently, “Confront and Conceal: Obama’s Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power’’(2012). As a visiting senior fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, he has taught national security policy.

William Wylie lecture - Feb 21st, 2013, 5:30-7pm

See the attached PDF for additional information about the upcoming artist talk from William Wylie.

Current News: Snedden Guest Lecture Series Presents..

Emmy award-winning journalist Cheryl W. Thompson is an investigative reporter for The Washington Post who has written extensively about government corruption, immigration, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Washington, D.C. police department’s handling of homicide investigations.

Most recently, she tracked guns used to kill more than 500 police officers—including several in Alaska—since 2000. The groundbreaking series examined how the killers, many of them felons, got their firearms.

A Chicago native, Ms. Thompson has a bachelor’s degree in speech communication and a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has served as an adjunct professor at the University of Florida, and Georgetown and Howard universities. She was part of a Washington Post team of reporters awarded the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting.

Preston Gannaway and pictures from "Life Other Side"

Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Preston Gannaway has worked as a documentary newspaper photographer for the past 10 years. Gannaway believes the daily newspaper is an inclusive medium that brings visual storytelling to a diverse audience. She currently works for The Virginian-Pilot newspaper in Norfolk. In 2008, Gannaway's intimate photo story on the St. Pierre family, Remember Me, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for feature photography. Her work has been honored in numerous other national and international competitions, including Pictures of the Year International's One Week's Work and an award of excellence in Best Multimedia Project. A native of North Carolina, she began her career at the Coalfield Progress in rural southwest Virginia after earning a BA in fine art photography at Virginia Intermont College.

Wednesday 3.2.2011, 7pm
Noel Wien Library

War photographer and newspaper reporter Cheryl Hatch covered conflicts in the Middle East and Africa, including the aftermath of the first Gulf War in Iraq and the famine in Somalia. Hatch will share her
photographs and discuss the effects of war on women and children – and on her as a journalist.

Tuesday 2.8.11 - 7 p.m.
Schaible Auditorium
UAF Bunnell Bldg.

Mark Trahant will be giving his lecture, "Native Americans, Media and Health Care Reform", at the Schiable Auditorium (Bunnell Bldg., UAF Campus) at 7pm on 2/11/10.

UAF student Kaleb Yates and Journalism Professor Robert Prince are working on a half-hour documentary on the new postal regulation effecting letters to Santa - see more information at the website!

UAF Journalism recently presented the local community with a Borough Mayorial Debate - video available here!

Iraq Embed: Read about our three students and faculty member who traveled to Iraq to embed with the Ft. Wainwright-based Army Stryker Brigade in their blog, Short Timers.

Alaska Press Club 2009 Public Service Award

The Public Service Award is the highest honor Alaska Press Club, a 300-member professional organization, annually bestows for work published or broadcast in the previous calendar year. The competition is open to any and all Alaska media. The award recognizes a news organization "marshaling resources above and beyond what is expected" in its pursuit of a story deemed to be important to society.

A pair of judges determined this year's Public Service winners: Gary Cohn, a former Atwood Professor at the University of Alaska Anchorage and the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and numerous other national journalism awards. Loretta Tofani is a longtime investigative reporter and foreign correspondent and the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and numerous other national journalism awards.